Note 027 Julian has worked the crimes and misfortunes of the family of Constantine into an allegorical fable, which is happily conceived and agreeably related. It forms the conclusion of the seventh Oration, from whence it has,been detached and translated by the Abbe de la Bleterie, Vie de Jovien, tom. ii. p. 385-408.

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Note to Chapter 19 of DECLINE & FALL by Gibbon